Wednesday, November 27, 2013

And everyone gets a trophy just for participating...

And the continual lowering of the bar to widen the definition of excellence is showing to be a popular tool with our current commander in chief, himself a growing example of a tool...

The Obama Administrations would like everyone to try the DotGuv website for healthcare again, because it will crash less, but only if less people use it.  So everyone please rush to sign up, but please call your 8 million closest friends first and make sure no more than 49,999 of them are planning to sign up at the same time.  Do you realize what Jeff Bezos would say if he was told that the Amazon site was great, but only if a few thousand people used it at one time?  Heads would have rolled in seconds.

So we now know that:
A:  The administration knew that the fiasco was imminent before launch but failed to inform their boss.
B:  That nobody in the administration read the actual law or has a clue about "cause and effect",
C:  That the president basically lied to the american people about keeping their plans and doctors, mainly out of ignorance.
D:  That none of them understand the free market economy and applied the same principle for bringing the price of oranges or tomatoes down to health care coverage.
E.  Many who should be benefiting from the law will actually still not be able to afford insurance or qualify for the federal subsidy, but will have to pay the IRS fine, which will be used to make up the revenue supposedly lost by private insurance companies who did not offer plans affordable enough for these people to buy.

Despite all of this, we are supposed to look to them as wonderful politicians who have delivered us to the promised land.  Since I have not yet met anyone inside or outside of my workplace that will see their healthcare costs go down (generally it doubled) and my family is working to figure out what we do without next year to cover the cost of the health care increase (doubled+$20), I'm not feeling so warm and fuzzy.

Our president is now saying that everything is good, but putting an asterisk on his statement.  Likely it should be present next to all of them.  Sir, when trying to show your failed website as a great thing that will work mostly great, but only if there are 50,000 concurrent users or less with the tens of millions still to go, you are setting the bar for success very, very low.  Then again, my expectations for your administration have always been low, so I guess you are just living down to them.

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